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Annie Presley, the owner of McKellar Consulting, has been helping non-profit organizations realize their dreams since 1993. With home base in Kansas City, Missouri, she has traveled the world in the service of Governors, Senators and Presidents, while also advising over two hundred non-profits to make the world a better place. (CFRE) by the Association of Fundraising Professionals in 1997 and has been re-certified every 3 years.

McKellar Consulting began life as a fundraising company, and cut its teeth managing the $272 million Science City at Union Station capital campaign. Always working to shine the spotlight on her clients’ causes, Annie has worked with dozens of celebrities and high profile politicians over the years. In 1999 when George Brett was inducted into the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame, Annie produced all five celebratory events that raised over $1 million for George’s favorite charity – the Keith Worthington’s ALS Kansas City chapter.

It was a fitting send-off for her next adventure. That spring she was the 12th person hired by the George W. Bush presidential campaign. She spent the next 18 months criss-crossing the country from the New Hampshire to California primaries and gained the benefit of a national vision for her work as his National Deputy Finance Director.

As the final piece to her work on the election, Annie produced the Candlelight Dinners, the Inauguration’s centerpiece events, and the major fundraising component for the Inaugural weekend. Comprised of three simultaneous black tie dinners, replete with celebrity hosts, a 16-car presidential motorcade, live music and 6,000 guests, the events raised $40 million dollars.

Following the campaign, Annie accepted a position on Wall Street as VP and Director of Public Affairs and Charitable Giving at UBS Paine Webber. Reporting to the Chairman, she served as a guide for the new Swiss owners as they navigated the waters of American politics. Due to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11th, she also shepherded and delivered gifts of $9 million from their 72,000 employees worldwide to the victims and their families.

Yet, once a Midwesterner, always a Midwesterner, Annie headed back to Missouri, her fundraising toolbox now brimming with new skills, a national perspective, and friends in Washington on both sides of the Congressional aisle. These relationships would form the foundation of McKellar Consulting; still serving not-for-profits, but with a leaner staff and more specific strategies for combining the business, political and charitable worlds in order to serve the common good.

Annie currently serves the University of Missouri on The Corporate Roundtable, Missouri 100 and Chancellor's Fund for Excellence. She is an Advisory Board Member for the Starlight Foundation in Los Angeles; a National Advisory Board Member for Digital Ally Incorporated; and recently taught "Electing the American President" as an Adjunct Professor at Park University. A frequent guest speaker at fundraising and entrepreneur conferences, Annie first became a Certified Fundraising Professional (CFRE) by the Association of Fundraising Professionals in 1997 and has been re-certified every 3 years.

A devoted Tiger fan, Annie received her undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia and her Master's in Public Administration with an emphasis in Not-for-Profit Organizations, from the Cookingham Institute at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

She and her husband, Jay Selanders, live in Kansas City, Missouri with their two dogs and enjoy spending their off hours attending baseball, volleyball and soccer games Jay’s three kids play! In her free time Annie is writing a series of books about their rescue dog Sam, who recently died of cancer, and is co-authoring a second book with a friend. She and Jay are also designing a low-impact cabin in rural Missouri and they endeavor to play more golf!